On Fri, 20 May 2005 07:52:54 -0400, you wrote: Woah! Packard-Bell Celeron CPU 1.50Ghz - 1.49Ghz 96.0Mb RAM
Sounds a bit strange???? Hugh >Hello Hugh - > >I agree with Wayne both on the memory and AV. > >Your problems after installing NAV 2005 are just about a perfect match for >what happened with several of my machines after installing NIS 2004 in late >2003. Once I uninstalled it and started using a different AV program, no >further problems. I used EZ Armor for a while, but when the promised $10 >annual updates on that morphed into $29.95, I dumped it and tried the free >AVG7 Wayne mentioned. Now have it on several machines. > >Don't know about your side of the world, but here in the US even notebook >memory can be had dirt cheap if one looks around. I have found that for >day-to-day computing, and this is empiric data only, that Win XP Pro SP2 >will run adequately with 256MB of RAM (most of mine have 512 or more), and I >have installed it on machines with only 128MB. If the owner doesn't have at >least 256MB, that would be an excellent investment. To find out how much >RAM is there, (at least in Pro), right-click the MY COMPUTER icon on the >desktop and select properties. Near the bottom of the GENERAL tab you >should see the amount of installed RAM. > >Since the machine worked okay with NAV2002, I would expect that once you >clear NAV2005 it will again work adequately, and if you get a bit more RAM >if needed, it will work fine. > >FWIW, I have sitting right beside me a 7 year old Dell Optiplex P2/450MHz >with only 256MB RAM and it runs Win XP Pro SP2 quite satisfactorily. >Granted, I don't do any heavy number crunching or graphics manipulation with >it, and the only games I play are backgammon, gin, pitch and euchre, but it >is certainly a more than adequate machine for my purposes. > >G'luck. > >- >Bill Hatcher >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >- > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Windows Home/SOHO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf >Of Hugh Gundersen >Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 02:28 > >I've been asked to sort out a Packard Bell lap top (Ho Ho) that is about 2 >years old.... CPU about 1.2Ghz memory ???? 20Gb Hdd. > >It is running XP home (not used to this OS only pro and I find the files >are in strange places???). > >I wiped the Hdd as it once had a massive infection as asked to do and >reinstated XP with the restore CD (no real xp cd). > >Machine quite slow but acceptable. It had Norton AntiVirus 2002 installed >and this appeared Ok but I Installed NAV 2005 after first running SP2. > >Here is the rub... with SP2 all Ok with NAV 2005 everything takes 1/2 hour >to complete. Boot up is 4 mins. Start menu = 40sec. IE6 2.5mins Windows >Explorer = 2mins NAV window 5mins. > >Shut down a window = anywhere from 30secs to calling TaskManager to force >it to close and then TM take 2 mins to load and the window another 3mins to >accept the command to close. > >Any Ideas ? -- ---------------------------------------- ALL messages to the list MUST include a descriptive subject. To Change your email Address for this list, send the following message: CHANGE WIN-HOME your_old_address your_new_address to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note carefully that both old and new addresses are required.
